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Casey McKinlay wrote:
> 
> Chief,
> Any comments on breathing your O2 deco bottle at the beginning of a
> dive?  Oh, and then forgetting to drop it.  What about all the cave
> diving "pros" around him.  None of his buddies happened to notice he was
> breathing O2 .  Maybe that little detail got by
> the dive safety officer.  Maybe they should replace the safety officer
> with a lifeguard.  Stroke city and personal preference.

  Casey, these are the absolute worst of the "personal preference "
strokes. When they showed up to take pictures for us, it was
embarrassing. They refuse to do anything correctly, let alone mark
bottles, and it is every man for himself. 

  Combine that with this idiot Stone who knows nothing about running a
dive project or cave diving, and you have a mess. His solution is to try
to control the stupidity by lowering the oxygen bottles, rather than
requiring that bottles be marked correctly, and asking these big timers
to dive as a team.

  I choked thoough watching thes strokes with us because I had a
preagreed upon deal with the State that they could dive under my permit
if I were NOT responsible for them, and if they had an accident it was
agreed that this would have no bearing on me since I told them up front
these guys are a walking disaster.

  Wes and Tom are classic cases of twenty years of doing it wrong and
getting lucky. Same for Long. Jason Richards, however, is one of the
single stupidest haman beings I have ever seen out loose in public, and
is so dangerous, such a know it all, and such a horrendous stroke that I
am amazed that even these liberal minded personal preference types would
put up with him. In fact, Robert Carmichael barely beat a LIVID Jarrod
Jablonski to the "punch" in permanently banning Jason Richards from any
WKPP dive site after he did the SAME THING to us - he breathed the wrong
gas, and as he was lying on the beach in a dazed and confused state ( we
did not call 911 since determining if this asshole were brain damaged is
a moot point), Jablonski was unceremoniously giving him the axe.
Charmicael, said, "Jason is just not going to make it with us".
   
  The funniest thing is that Jarrod just wanted to know "who let him in
the water". It was like that scene from "Apocolypse Now" with the
canteen and the dying Vietnamese soldier.

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